Dr. Wayland published a new volume regarding second language speech learning

Congratulations to Dr. Ratree Wayland, whose edited volume “Second Language Speech Learning: Theoretical and Empirical Progress” was just published by Cambridge University Press. The link to the book is here and the abstract is attached below. Including contributions from a team of world-renowned international scholars, this volume is a state-of-the-art survey of second language speech […]

Dr. Tang was invited by Trinity College Dublin to give a speech on the predictability of linguistic units

Dr. Tang was invited by the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering of Trinity College Dublin to give a talk on the predictability of linguistic units in spoken spontaneous speech. In the talk, he will demonstrate how understanding fine-phonetic variations will not only reveal the different communicative strategies employed by interlocutors but also how the mental […]

One NSF funded PhD position available at UF: Phonetics, Laboratory Phonology and Computational Linguistics

The Speech, Lexicon and Modeling Lab (slam.lin.ufl.edu) within the Department of Linguistics (lin.ufl.edu) at the University of Florida is accepting applicants to the Linguistics PhD program. A PhD student position is available fully funded for three years to work in the Speech, Lexicon and Modeling Lab with Dr. Kevin Tang and Dr. Ratree Wayland in […]

Three abstracts from SLAMers are accepted by LSA 2021 Annual Meeting

Congratulations! Our lab has three abstracts accepted by LSA 2021 Annual Meeting and hopes they will give a wonderful presentation at the conference! Non-homophonic homophones in Mandarin Chinese: evidence for phonetic detail in the lexicon Poster Session: Phonetics II Authors: Kevin Tang (University of Florida), Jason Shaw (Yale University) Reducing Racial Bias in […]

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